Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

2.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

3.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

4.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

5.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

6.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

8.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

9.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

10.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

11.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

12.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

13.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

14.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

15.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

16.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

17.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

18.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

19.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

20.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

23.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

25.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

26.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

29.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

30.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

31.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

33.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

36.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

38.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

39.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

42.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

43.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

44.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

45.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

47.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

48.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

49.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

50.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig